The Nightmare is Over

It has finally come to this. After two years of grumbling and waffling, I am free. I have freed myself from the costant whinning and petulant meltdowns of a child. I have finally killed him. I came to a world changing epiphany and snapped. After debating whether I should and if I could really go through with it. I did it. He is dead. I could not take one more morning filled with crying and self-centered narcisisim. Something had to be done. I've killed him and his sister and his mother. The entire family of whinny Canadians are dead.

I have vanquished my foe. Caillou is dead. He no longer darkens my beautiful new LCD flatscreen TV. I have taken him off the autorecord on Tivo and his vomit inducing giggle will be heard from no more.

As I have documented here before, I hate this show. It teaches kids to whine and complain when they don't get their way or something doesn't come easy enough for them. Tiernan, my three-year old loves this show. It is about a kid that is his age and his little sister and Mommy and Daddy. It is Tiernan's life and he does learn some good things by watching the show. It helps his imagination. So I would let Tiernan watch the WLB (whinny little bastard) in moderation. However, he's been watching WLB it too much lately, and as a result, I've noticed that Tiernan is whinning more and more, and what's worse is I've heard him say on numberous occasions. "It's too hard! I can't do it!" when attempting do perform simple tasks such as pull up his underwear and button his pants. WLB has taught him that he can quit. Hell, I'd rather he watched more CSI, (deemed by a parents watchdog group to be the worst show on television for families due it its subject matter, the grissly recreations, sexual depictions and adult situations) and learn science and law & order, and some anatomy -- than watch WLB and learn to whine and quit.


I just wish WLB parents would do some parenting instead of always giving into what he wants. They never say no to this WLB.I just want to punch WLB's mother in the mouth and say wake up and parent. Your kid is messing up my kid, with his aire of entitlement and socialist view of the world. And why hasn't he been to a doctor about his lack of hair. He's four and Homer Simpson has more hair.


The other thing I hate about WLB is he is treated special everywhere he goes. If he goes to a farm he gets to ride a horse, if he goes on a airline, he gets to go in the cockpit, if he goes on a bus he gets to steer.

Tierna is like a WLB junkie. He keeps asking to watch WLB "just one show", but I tell him that it isn't on TV anymore. It has been hard, but hopefully, I can detox Tiernan from the long reaching effects of such a harmful addiction and he will go on to live a normal whine-free life. I know going cold-turkey can be tough, but if WLB is the drug of choice, I've found PBS' methodone, which I can use to keep Tiernan clean of the more harmful WLB. I have offered Tiernan, Clifford the Big Red Dog to get him over this tough adjustmet period to being WLB free. He seems to be responding to this treatment. He asked to watch Clifford today.

Tiernan is still whinning, I don't know if we'll ever get free of that side-effect. But in a few weeks, who knows he could be a changed boy and a productive member of society again. Instead of a WLB.